model explains the changes in top incomeinequality fairly well until the mid-’90s, but it fails to match the subsequent increases in top incomeinequality ... Figure 8: Top IncomeInequality and Top Income Share Trajectory under Myopic Optimization Power Law Inequality (Income) η Top 1% Income Share (%) Estimate from true η Data Data Model Estimate Model Estimate Year Year ... Next we see how top incomes would evolve if we take the real historical changes

accounts for 91% of the increase in within-group consumption inequality measured with the ND+ consumption measure using CEX data. Note that the model matches the change in between-group consumption inequality with CEX(ND+) by construction. Persistence of within

IPF Another way to look at the behavior of the inequality extraction ratio with a changing social minimum is to take the current actual social minima, find out what they implicitly imply about b, and calculate the inequality extraction ratio based

impacts on water resources (Singh and others 2004). In China per capita pork ... per capita beef consumption is only 10% of that in the United States. Meat consumption in much of Sub-Saharan Africa is not directly related to income, because many ... figure 3.1 The world will get richer, but large income gaps will remain Most optimistic (top) to most pessimistic (bottom) scenarios Per capita GDP (2000 US dollars) World Sub-Saharan Africa East Asia OECD countries Source: MEA 2005; Alcamo

if we utilize conventional per capitaincome measures, under which current inequality is substantially higher. Figures 5 and 6 show projected per capitaincome growth results ... of the likely evolution of per capitaincome in the absence of a World Economic Equalization ... Four representative high-income countries: U.S., France, Italy, Spain Four representative low-income countries: Algeria, Ecuador, Ghana, India Figure 6. Estimated PPP per capitaincome growth with a WEEP, 2000–50, for eight representative countries.

Figure 10: Potential impact of changes in inequality on number of people escaping poverty in Brazil, 2010-2020 Ten points off gini Five points off gini Latest trend in inequality Static inequality Rising inequality Population, million ... worldbank.org), the IMF World Economic Outlook database, and the Solt Standardized World IncomeInequality Database. See annex for more details. (―Rising inequality‖ refers to inequality increasing at the annualized rate seen in Indonesia, 1999-2009) Mexico Mexico

Figure 10: Potential impact of changes in inequality on number of people escaping poverty in Brazil, 2010-2020 Ten points off gini Five points off gini Latest trend in inequality Static inequality Rising inequality Population, million ... worldbank.org), the IMF World Economic Outlook database, and the Solt Standardized World IncomeInequality Database. See annex for more details. (“Rising inequality” refers to inequality increasing at the annualized rate seen in Indonesia, 1999-2009) Mexico Mexico